Re: Melbourne Historic Fleet - thoughts

And the upshot of this mentality is that a great tram system with a
wonderful tramway heritage has no heritage operations - and no
tramway museum or museum tramway within 80km (or whatever the
distance is). Very sad and not a great credit to anyone concerned.

--- In TramsDownUnder@y..., Bill Bolton <billbolton@c...> wrote:

Whatever the reason, the PRIMARY PURPOSE of the Melbourne tram

system

is to provide cost effective public transport services to the
inhabitants of the city which the inhabitants find attractive enough
about to actually use.

Attracting tourists/railfans or operating heritage services/museums
etc are at best quite peripheral to the primary purpose, and unless
the citizens of the State of Victoria as a whole are prepared to

pony

up the substantial costs associated with realising those peripheral
benefits, it just isn't going to happen under a privatised operating
structure.

Blame Jeff Kennett!

Cheers,

Bill


Bill Bolton
Sydney, Australia

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